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Hero’s Hill summer 2025

Hero's Hill is a new temporary art installation by Kate Browne, designed as a roadside attraction, set against the magnificent backdrop of the woods of upstate New York. Hundreds of reflective aluminum letters wrapping around a gravel mound repeatedly spell the phrase WE WANT THE NEXT HERO TO ARRIVE ON TIME. John Philip Sousa's Stars and Stripes Forever plays whenever the viewer pushes the start button on the sound column. Horns blare, drums beat, cymbals crash, and, in less than a minute, the music slows, runs down, and abruptly stops, surprising the viewers, jarring them out of their revelry to think only in the present, without fanfare, about their heroes. The music is part of our individual memory and collective mythology.

The artwork, in its entirety, is reminiscent of great American mythology, its heroes, and the American landscape, both natural and artificial.

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